Something rotten
A succession of scandals has created a profound mistrust in our political and media class.
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A succession of scandals has created a profound mistrust in our political and media class.
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Your weekly dose of gossip from around Westminster.
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Following a bitter dispute about asylum seekers, the 13-year premiership of “Teflon Mark” has finally ended.
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Europe has proved far more adept at building walls than the former US president was.
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The acclaimed historian on whether Britain is in decline, the Nairn-Anderson thesis and what Labour gets wrong about economic…
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Until the European Union undergoes deep structural change, the door will remain shut.
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There are young thinkers that long for a party to assert cultural conservatism, and not just manage national decline.
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The implication of Labour’s focus on “resilience” is that modern subjects are weak, inflexible and unable to cope.
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Everyone can, and should, be a critic. But the reviews website is having a sinister effect on books.
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With the nation consumed by sleaze, the serious business of government is at a standstill.
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As Spain heads to the polls, the country’s fractured politics offer a glimpse of what’s to come.
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How the French activist and thinker forged a radical new philosophy for an age of war and ideological conflict.
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Johan Norberg’s The Capitalist Manifesto is a feeble defence of a system under attack.
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A new poem by Maryann Corbett.
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Also featuring Reflections by Mark Avery and The Black Eden by Richard T Kelly.
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Her new book What About Men? promises an anatomy of the male condition – but instead provides flagrant stereotypes…
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How the audacious artists of the Seventies embraced disgust and redefined female beauty.
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Ed Conway’s Material World shows that despite our digital lives it is rocks and minerals that power the global…
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The National Portrait Gallery exhibition of “forgotten” pictures will be revelatory for Beatles obsessives.
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From museums and airports to bridges and a pissoir, for 60 years the architect has left his stamp on…
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From Siân Davey to Gauri Gill, the photographers competing for the prestigious award are deeply impressive.
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Reviewing the Tom Cruise film Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning Part One is an exercise as absurd as critiquing…
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The Sex and the City sequel is a combination of glib identity politics and extreme shopping – and it’s…
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I thought I had to see tennis to believe it – but BBC Radio 5 Live’s commentary has transported…
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How do we connect with the past when this impulse is often exploited by the worst people imaginable?
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I may have a grey beard, but the wingèd chariot dawdles no more for them than it does for…
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This column – which, though named after a line in Shakespeare’s “Richard II”, refers to the whole of Britain…
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The marine biologist on the Beatles, eliminating single-use plastic, and animal self-awareness.
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